Michael Fox

Using disconnectome analyses in stroke patients with aphasia, Ito et al. find that distinct neural pathways underlie writing deficits in kana (phonograms) and kanji (morphograms). shorturl.at/SEqWT

The cancer-Alzheimer's paradox, an inverse correlation, with an unexplained mechanism "The risk of Alzheimer’s disease in patients with cancer is significantly reduced, and the risk of cancer in patients with Alzheimer’s disease is halved." nature.com/articles/s4151…

@warmxue @shansiddiqi Possibly, or could be a delayed effect of the more targeted stim or that placebo effects dissipate leading to more separation over time.

@shansiddiqi @foxmdphd Huge congrats! This is a much-needed head-to-head comparison. Curious how you’re interpreting the trajectory: acute improvement looks similar across arms, with separation by 1 month. Does that point more to better durability?

We all thought this study would fail, for different reasons. Joe Taylor (1st author) thought it'd be a takedown of fMRI-guided TMS. @foxmdphd and I (co-senior authors) thought the effect would be too small to detect in just 40 patients. We were wrong. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Is brain circuit targeted TMS better at treating depression than scalp targeted TMS? New paper by Joe Taylor @Brain_Circuits out today in @JAMAPsych says yes! Connectivity- vs Scalp-Based Targeting of Accelerated TMS for Depression jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Thanks @Martijn_Figee_, @HelenMaybergMD, and Barak for a thoughtful editorial!

Please RT - We are looking for someone who wants to establish and lead a cutting-edge neuroimaging center at Northwestern, working closely with multiple labs, including my own, in neuroscience research broadly construed. If you are curious, dm me and Im happy to answer questions

A paper was just published in @NatureMedicine showing again the striking efficacy of pramipexole, the active component in ALTO-207, in a randomized trial of depressed patients with high anhedonia ! Congrats to Daniel Lindqvist, Filip Ventorp et al. A 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4159…

New in @NatureMedicine, @DorisWangLab shows that distinct left- and right-leg swing biomarkers can drive DBS that changes on a sub-second timescale with each step. A major advance toward movement-driven, precision-timed neuromodulation for #Parkinsons. nature.com/articles/s4159…

We've known that socioeconomics (SES) matters for the 🧠. New & 🤯 is that SES drowns out all other brain associations, incl. IQ. If you train an algorithm to predict IQ from brain data, it's still way better at predicting SES. Science Magazine: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 👀🧵👇

In Denmark, average genetic risk among individuals diagnosed with #ADHD or #AutismSpectrumDisorder declined over two decades, supporting broadening diagnostic criteria as the main driver of rising rates. ja.ma/4vCXFgH

Our TMS algorithm is now published in @ImagingNeurosci doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a… If you are coming to @OHBM @OHBM_Trainees, come check out our poster about our open label trial. Poster number 1152 Monday, Jun 15 | 14:45-15:45 Tuesday, Jun 16 | 13:30-14:30

@souljagoyteller science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… … IQ can’t be found in the brain after correcting for SES.

Can lesion network mapping predict survival in children with brain tumors? Collaboration with UCL and @Brain_Circuits in @Nature suggests the answer is yes. Cutting the tumor off from this network may confer survival benefit. nature.com/articles/s4158…

What’s the optimal TMS target for smoking addiction? @SK__PhD @Brain_Circuits and @tweetnicolepete @UCLA found that connectivity of 243 TMS sites to a lesion-based addiction remission circuit led to better response. Out now in @APAPubJournals

The Allen Institute, known for backing large-scale basic biology research such as ambitious “atlases” of cell types in the brain, is expanding its scope to tackle multiple neurodegenerative diseases. scim.ag/4uGnAUF

How do you build a brain circuit treatment for patients with the most severe form of epilepsy? Start by finding the brain circuit target. Great talk by John Rolston @ASSFNeurosurg @Brain_Circuits @NeuroPace

What’s the mission of brain computer interfaces? To reassure patients that they will never loose their ability to move and speak. Great talk by @neuroleigh @MGBResearchNews @ASSFNeurosurg

🎤 The @ASSFNeurosurg meeting in #Cleveland kicked off today with outstanding presentations one after another. 🧠✨ I’m truly grateful for the invitation to speak about #focusedultrasound #neuromodulation and share insights from our latest studies, alongside many exciting new developments in the field.